Favorite Quote

“We like those who resemble us, and are engaged in the same pursuits. . . . We like those who desire the same things as we [do].”

Main Idea

Unconsciously with our body language, tone of voice, words and the friendship formula we send out foe or friend signals. Understanding all of the elements in the Like Switch and more specifically in the friend formula we are able to adjust to turn on the Like Switch with whoever we meet, even turning foreign spies into allies.

Review

Any book that starts off with an anecdote of having students joining a College class from a former FBI agent as a way to pick up girls more effectively deserves more than attention. Jack Schafer takes a traditional approach in conveying body language cues as well as timeless principles from Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends And Influence People making them special and relatable. The two former are achieved by using plenty of fun FBI interviews, real life situations like texting and delayed flights as well as the occasional marital dispute.

Favorite Quote

“The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.”

Main Idea

The most important factor in accumulating extraordinary wealth is the discipline of placing aside 10% of our income. The 7 rules below facilitate this discipline, makes this money work for us and places it in a safe place.

Review

Honesty, is one of my many traits, (not so many), and being really honest, I hated The Richest Man In Babylon when I began listening to it. The book was published in 1926 and its author George S Clason purposefully tried to make the dialogue and narration sound ancient throughout the book. So here I was, a Finance graduate, listening to an old book, that wanted to sound ancient narrated in Audible by someone who was trying really hard to sound like a Medieval jester. A jester who gave up on jokes and started teaching finance to all of us, the bored peasants in the kingdom who wanted a break from Netflix.